The reward of uprightness of heart in the path of law

Then comes the inquiry who is the person that will have a share
in the blessings of that holy hill, when the Lord shall have
established the seat of His righteous power in Zion?

Psalm 15 gives the answer he in whom is uprightness of heart in
the path of the law. Remark here, that while the godly (when all is
utterly dark, and wickedness has entirely the upper hand, and the
foundations of human earthly hope, even in the things that belong
to God on the earth, are destroyed, and wickedness is in the place
of righteousness) look above and see God's throne immutable in
heaven, and thus all in heaven and earth brought into connection;
yet, as to the point they look to, it is Jehovah in His holy temple
and deliverance coming out of Zion; and so it will (see Isaiah 66:
6). The immutable throne in heaven will establish in sure power the
long desolate throne upon the earth. Jehovah will be in His temple,
but will reign in the Person of Christ in Zion. This is Jewish
deliverance and according to just Jewish hopes.

Full relationship with Jehovah enjoyed in trial

There is one important general remark to make here the sense of
full relationship with Jehovah is enjoyed. Whatever the trial,
whatever the condition of the remnant, the wickedness of the
people, the oppression of the Gentiles in the land, the faith of
the remnant contemplates its relationship with Jehovah. And hence
Jehovah is viewed as in His holy temple, though there is as yet no
manifestation of His power. We have not, therefore, the remnant as
yet entirely cast out, nor is the power of Antichrist here
contemplated as manifested. When he sets up his power, there will
be open apostasy, and the faithful will be driven out. But the
wicked and the Gentile, as such, in the land, are contemplated. We
learn clearly from this psalm (Ps. 11) that the wicked is
characteristic. It is plural, except verse 5 where it is in
contrast with the righteous.

The scope of psalms 11-15 -- the remnant among the nations,
looking on in faith to deliverance out of Zion

These psalms, passing over the driving out from Jerusalem, go on
in hope to another scene the deliverance wrought by Jehovah when He
is indeed returned to Jerusalem; not the destruction of Antichrist
by the Lord coming from heaven, but the driving out of the Gentile
oppressors by Jehovah established in Zion. Hence all Israel is
brought in (Psalm 14: 7). And their salvation comes out of
Zion. Hence these psalms, as far as they refer to Christ, look at
the time in which He walked on earth before His final
rejection. They do not, save Psalm 2 and Psalm 8, directly refer to
Him, but to the remnant. But in His public path on earth, He did,
from His baptism by John Baptist, associate Himself graciously with
them; as at the close He tasted in grace their final sorrows in the
close of their history.These psalms present to us the state of the remnant while still
having their place among the nations who have not yet openly
broken, in apostasy, with Jehovah, but whose wickedness is in fact
showing itself, and ripening to its highest pitch. And they pass
over, in faith, to the time when Jehovah, seated in Zion, delivers
His people, casting all the Gentiles out of His land, all Israel
being restored from their captivity. The whole latter-day scene,
except the last half-week of Antichrist's power, is before
us. Jehovah is still in His place, as publicly owned. It was just
thus in the Lord's days. In Psalm 14: 5, Elohim is spoken of,
because it is not relationship which is there in question, but God
Himself in His nature and character. Not man, or anything human, or
even Satan's power, was there; but God was in the generation of the
righteous.